Stallings Island Revisited
New Evidence for Occupational History, Community Pattern, and Subsistence Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2591638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth E Sassaman (0000-0002-5463-0775, University of Florida, corresponding author), Meggan E Blessing (University of Florida), Asa R Randall (0000-0002-5444-0744, University of Florida) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 539-565 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/40035364 |
| OpenAlex | W4239698261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
For nearly 150 years Stallings Island, Georgia has figured prominently in the conceptualization of Late Archaic culture in the American Southeast, most notably in its namesake pottery series, the oldest in North America, and more recently, in models of economic change among hunter-gatherer societies broadly classified as the Shell Mound Archaic. Recent fieldwork resulting in new radiocarbon assays from secure contexts pushes back the onset of intensive shellfish gathering at Stallings Island several centuries; enables recognition of a hiatus in occupation that coincides with the regional advent of pottery making; and places abandonment at ca. 3500 B.P. Analysis of collections and unpublished field records from a 1929 Peabody expedition suggests that the final phase of occupation involved the construction of a circular village and plaza complex with household storage and a formalized cemetery, as well as technological innovations to meet the demands of increased settlement permanence. Although there are too few data to assess the degree to which more permanent settlement led to population-resource imbalance, several lines of evidence suggest that economic changes were stimulated by ritual intensification
Agriculture · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
Direct radiocarbon dating of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) from early fiber-tempered pottery in the southeastern U.S
Geochemical sourcing of fiber-tempered pottery and the organization of Late Archaic Stallings communities in the American Southeast
Subsistence economics, family size, and the emergence of social complexity in hunter–gatherer systems in eastern North America
Tick Island Incised
Coils, slabs, and molds
The Shell-Bearing Archaic in the Middle Cumberland River Valley
Late Archaic Modes of Broad-Bladed Biface Transmission across Northeastern North America
Evaluating Mobility, Monumentality, and Feasting at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Complex
Circling the wagons' and community formation
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Dating of Temper in Shell-Tempered Ceramics
Adaptive Cycles of Coastal Hunter-Gatherers
Evidence for Significant Subterranean Storage at Two Hunter-Gatherer Sites
Modeling Archaic land use and mobility in north-central Belize
When edges become centered
Cultural spaces and climate change
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |